A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.